Re: DSA-3708-1 mat -- security update (What are MAT users to do)?
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:47 AM, intrigeri wrote: > Robert Haist: > > For PDFs you can use exiftool from the libimage-exiftool-perl to remove > > metadata: > > exiftool -all= example.pdf > > This works for me. > > Does this address the problem (metadata in embedded images) that > triggered us from removing this functionality from MAT? Assuming the documentation is correct, the manpage for exiftool states: >3) Changes to PDF files are reversible because the original information is never actually deleted from the file. > So ExifTool alone may not be used to securely edit metadata in PDF files. that sounds like a "NO". :-( --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu- http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/
Re: DSA-3708-1 mat -- security update (What are MAT users to do)?
Robert Haist: > For PDFs you can use exiftool from the libimage-exiftool-perl to remove > metadata: > exiftool -all= example.pdf > This works for me. Does this address the problem (metadata in embedded images) that triggered us from removing this functionality from MAT?
Re: DSA-3708-1 mat -- security update (What are MAT users to do)?
For PDFs you can use exiftool from the libimage-exiftool-perl to remove metadata: exiftool -all= example.pdf This works for me. Regards, Rob On 10.11.2016 02:42, gwmfm...@unseen.is wrote: > This email is in response to www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3708 > > I relied on MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) on a daily basis to remove > the metadata from PDFs as it is a requirement for my job. I must have this > ability. I appreciate the effort to fix this bug but it was not a major issue > for me because the PDFs I encounter did not have images. Now that MAT cannot > deal with PDFs at all, I am forced to use Windows (which I hate) because I > cannot find a suitable alternative to MAT. > > Can anyone please suggest a Debian solution to my current problem? I am > assuming that Debian Stretch Stable (2017 release) will have an updated > version of MAT that will again process PDFs? But what can I do until then to > be able to meet my work demands? > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
